{"id":846824,"date":"2026-03-24T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846824\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:41:16","slug":"ukraine-says-its-weighing-protections-for-captured-north-korean-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/846824\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says it\u2019s weighing protections for captured North Korean soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine said it is considering legal protections for asylum seekers as it weighs whether to forcibly repatriate two North Korean prisoners of war captured fighting for Russia, according to a letter sent to a South Korean human rights organization Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The principle of non-refoulement \u201cis being taken into account\u201d in the treatment of the captured DPRK soldiers, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry\u2019s legal support bureau said in a letter to the Emergency Committee for the Free Repatriation of North Korean Soldiers, a copy of which was reviewed by NK News.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine said it is considering legal protections for asylum seekers as it weighs whether to forcibly repatriate two North Korean prisoners of war captured fighting for Russia, according to a letter sent to a South Korean human rights organization Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The principle of non-refoulement \u201cis being taken into account\u201d in the treatment of the captured DPRK soldiers, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry\u2019s legal support bureau said in a letter to the Emergency Committee for the Free Repatriation of North Korean Soldiers, a copy of which was reviewed by NK News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine said it is considering legal protections for asylum seekers as it weighs whether to forcibly repatriate two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,95012,241972,95013,657],"class_list":["post-846824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-foreign-relations","tag-human-security-human-rights","tag-military-affairs","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116283499648569545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}